Last November, Microsoft outlined a product road map for its intelligent systems vision. MaOver the past year, Microsoft has been discussing the vast possibilities offered by the emergence of a new category within the traditional embedded market - intelligent systems.Ī critical component of Microsoft's enterprise strategy, intelligent systems enable an unprecedented flow of data with the power to transform industries such as retail, manufacturing and medicine, by connecting devices where data is generated through employees and customers to back-end systems and services where it is translated into strategic insight to inform business decisions. Windows Embedded Standard 8 community technology preview is the next step for enterprises and OEMs to harness the power of Windows for specialized devices running line-of-business applications Building Intelligent Systems With Windows